Paris, 2022
Humor is a thread throughout the work binding different media such as theater, discarded furniture, story telling, and imagery.
Axel presented four pieces.
Social Room
This work ponders on our interactions with each other and ourselves in present times. It is a theater piece that encourages the spectators to communicate and relate with the person living in the “social room” only through cyberspace.
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Light-box Rétro-Éclairé
This work is an essay on the consumption of images and the image of ourselves.
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Platanos
When my Haitian grandfather was a kid he worked picking bananas. They were poor so we often would eat a banana, but they were still green. He didn't know that later this would cause him a mild ulcer in the stomach. Since then, he always liked his bananas to be overripe, he would say “when it starts to have brown spots it's ready!”.
When I was young I used to dumpster-dive because I was poor. This would mean that most of the bananas I ate were always overripe. I could make banana bread or smoothies but got tired of eating them brown. Because of this I like my bananas to be just ripe.
This is the story of why my grandpa and I like bananas in different ways for similar reasons.
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Gravures à la pointe-sèche etching on paper